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My Colorado trip is postponed till June now.
Instead of flying, going to drive it from NC, 1600ish miles, then going to take an extra week of vacation and spend time in the Midwest with the family and site see.
Instead of flying, going to drive it from NC, 1600ish miles, then going to take an extra week of vacation and spend time in the Midwest with the family and site see.
expatriatedtexan
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It's not a super interesting area, to be honest, to actually be able to see Colorado. The road down to Denver is a very easy drive though. Denver has a top 10 museum of art, museum of science, and zoo in the nation. All three are good gets. Eat at Guard and Grace if you can afford it, but there are a ton of awesome food scenes in Denver. D'Corazon is a beast of a Mexican restaurant. Lucile's is a must-eat breakfast place around the metro area.
You will be close to Boulder, which has some established institutions when it comes to food. Flower Pepper is probably one of the best you can get. Gaia Masala and Burger, Zoe Ma Ma, Rincon, Blackbelly, Frasca's, and Jax are others worth chequing out. A ton of hiking spots around Boulder as well, my favourite is Royal Arch, but I honestly just loved walking around some close ones too like Red Rocks trail in Boulder or driving on Boulder Canyon Dr. One of my favouritestest things to do if you have time is drive from Netherlands north on highway 72, then northwest on highway 7 to Estes Park and do Rocky Mountain National Park. Crazy awesome drive, but in June it will be MEGA busy (word of warning). Also, even though you're coming in June, if you plan on going to the mountains, bring some coats. There could be a 30 degree temp drop from Boulder/Longmont to Rocky Mountain National Park. One time when I was towards the top of Mt. Evans, it was snowing with 80 mph wind...in July.
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The wife and I spent way, way longer than intended at the Denver Fire Station Museum. Actually stepped in to get out of the heat of walking around in the summer and just got mesmorized by it.
Guess what I'm trying to say is that even many of the smaller museums in Coloado are just incredible. Think the wife and I would actually have considered relocating once upon time. There really is a wealth of culture in addition to some vastly different but always gorgeous terrrain, whether up at RMNP or out towards the Garden of the Gods or the Red Rocks, it seems like we never quite have enough time to hit up everything we want to see on our trips down.
I think my favorite restaurant has been the Chophouse but it's been years since I've been there. The last two trips, my wife has wanted Fogo de Chao. Have no idea how she litereally dances out of a place like that while I've had to loosen my belt a good three notches and am already beginning to realize just how bad a call that last double neat was.
